On 2/28/2010 2:54 PM, Marg McEuen wrote: > Hello, I have belonged to the G-B List for quite some time, but I haven't received any messages for the last couple of weeks. My mail server has been changing things around and I am wondering if the List has been blocked. The list of blocked addresses has also disappeared. So this is a message to see if it come through. Thanks. Marg McEuen > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > You came through loud and clear to me

Thank you everyone for responding so quickly.  I am getting messages, but didn't know if there was a lull in them, or if my e-mail was acting up, as it does periodically.  I, too, have been busy with searching the Plzen Archives at Celiv and Domaschlag for Kahabka, Kunzl, Roth, Gaertner, Kugl, and Kliesinger. Marg McEuen --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Aida Kraus <[email protected]> wrote: From: Aida Kraus <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Test Message about Receiving Messages To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 4:23 PM The  messages seem to come in spurts as we are working on family searches. At present, there is a lull.  If you need to inform yourself of subjects that are of interest to you,  please go to our archives and click on this link, here: (hold down Ctrl button and click your mouse button simultaneously on this underlined URL): http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GERMAN-BOHEMIAN <http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GERMAN-BOHEMIAN>When there, click on the years and months and watch for  various subjects.  Sometimes, discussions are buried within other subject titles,  therefore, a perusal of several consecutive discussions can bring up what you are looking for and you can post additional questions on the List at any time.  We have helped many visitors on this list out of a dead end in their family search, or we have helped them to find new directions in their family search.     Aida --------------------------------------------- On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Sir John <[email protected]> wrote: > Your message came though o k.  I don't see many messages on this list, > though. > > Sir John, Earl of Berkshire > What good is information if not shared with others? > > --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Marg McEuen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Marg McEuen <[email protected]> > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Test Message about Receiving Messages > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 2:54 PM > > > Hello, I have belonged to the G-B List for quite some time, but I haven't > received any messages for the last couple of weeks.  My mail server has been > changing things around and I am wondering if the List has been blocked.  The > list of blocked addresses has also disappeared.  So this is a message to see > if it come through.  Thanks.  Marg McEuen > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The messages seem to come in spurts as we are working on family searches. At present, there is a lull. If you need to inform yourself of subjects that are of interest to you, please go to our archives and click on this link, here: (hold down Ctrl button and click your mouse button simultaneously on this underlined URL): http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GERMAN-BOHEMIAN <http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/GERMAN-BOHEMIAN>When there, click on the years and months and watch for various subjects. Sometimes, discussions are buried within other subject titles, therefore, a perusal of several consecutive discussions can bring up what you are looking for and you can post additional questions on the List at any time. We have helped many visitors on this list out of a dead end in their family search, or we have helped them to find new directions in their family search. Aida --------------------------------------------- On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Sir John <[email protected]> wrote: > Your message came though o k. I don't see many messages on this list, > though. > > Sir John, Earl of Berkshire > What good is information if not shared with others? > > --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Marg McEuen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Marg McEuen <[email protected]> > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Test Message about Receiving Messages > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 2:54 PM > > > Hello, I have belonged to the G-B List for quite some time, but I haven't > received any messages for the last couple of weeks. My mail server has been > changing things around and I am wondering if the List has been blocked. The > list of blocked addresses has also disappeared. So this is a message to see > if it come through. Thanks. Marg McEuen > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Last message received was 15 Feb, Harold ----- Original Message ----- From: Aida Kraus<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Test Message about Receiving Messages Came through to me, Aida On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Marg McEuen <[email protected]>wrote<mailto:[email protected]%3Ewrote>: > Hello, I have belonged to the G-B List for quite some time, but I haven't > received any messages for the last couple of weeks. My mail server has been > changing things around and I am wondering if the List has been blocked. The > list of blocked addresses has also disappeared. So this is a message to see > if it come through. Thanks. Marg McEuen > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/<http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/> > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/<http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Your message came though o k.  I don't see many messages on this list, though. Sir John, Earl of Berkshire What good is information if not shared with others? --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Marg McEuen <[email protected]> wrote: From: Marg McEuen <[email protected]> Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Test Message about Receiving Messages To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 2:54 PM Hello, I have belonged to the G-B List for quite some time, but I haven't received any messages for the last couple of weeks.  My mail server has been changing things around and I am wondering if the List has been blocked.  The list of blocked addresses has also disappeared.  So this is a message to see if it come through.  Thanks.  Marg McEuen German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Came through to me, Aida On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Marg McEuen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, I have belonged to the G-B List for quite some time, but I haven't > received any messages for the last couple of weeks. My mail server has been > changing things around and I am wondering if the List has been blocked. The > list of blocked addresses has also disappeared. So this is a message to see > if it come through. Thanks. Marg McEuen > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello, I have belonged to the G-B List for quite some time, but I haven't received any messages for the last couple of weeks.  My mail server has been changing things around and I am wondering if the List has been blocked.  The list of blocked addresses has also disappeared.  So this is a message to see if it come through.  Thanks.  Marg McEuen

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Bob, I wasn't trying to say the maps were incorrect. I was wondering what was meant by Celts as our most ancient ancestors? In what way were they our most ancient ancestors? And would that be ancestors of ethnic Bohemians only or also of Ethnic Germans born in Bohemia? I did a maternal line DNA test which gave me the result of Haplogroup T2 and ancestors coming from the middle east to central Europe. I'm still not clear on what my DNA results mean. Pam > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:55:27 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] maps > > PJ - > > The map is correct and so are you. Different maps show different things - > and time periods. > > If you want an interesting look at the out-of-Africa maps, check this out: > https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html > > Bob U. > > -- > "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." > – Edna Ferber > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Since Celtic people lived for many centuries in the area of Salzburg and started the Hallein (Salt) culture, you will get the best information on ancient Celtic by visiting their museum. This is also the cradle for the remaining Celts in the British Isles. Bohemia is just to the North and has always been on the trade routes of salt from the South and Amber from the North. Here is an excerpt... otherwise go to this website: http://www.salzburgcb.com/en/salzburg/excursions/hallein_englisch.php <http://www.salzburgcb.com/en/salzburg/excursions/hallein_englisch.php>It is a wonderful place to visit and experience ancient history there. I can highly recommend this tour to visitors going to Europe, because you come face to face with the ancient people of the homeland. Aida Hallein is an ancient Celtic salt-mining town located some 20 kilometers to the south of Salzburg. Hallein's historic city center is classified as historical and - just like 400 years ago - is lined with charming burgher houses painted in a variety of colors. The town is known for its exhibition *Salt Mines<http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/tid_celtic_museum_hallein_46745/direktlink.html> * in the Bad Dürnberg district. The bus will take you directly to the Salt Mines where salt was already extracted as early as 600 years before Christ. The salt mines became particulary significant under Salzburg's archbishops during the 16th century, at which time they produced the most salt in the Eastern Alps. Hallein was the archbishopric's "treasure vault". Salzburg's affluence and beauty is still attributed to the wealth derived from trading with the "white gold" - as salt was known back in those days. Before starting off on the tour of the *"Salt World"<http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/tid_celtic_museum_hallein_46745/direktlink.html> * it is customary to pass bread, salt and schnapps as a token of hospitality at the entrance to the tunnel. On your exciting journey through the winding tunnel system running between Salzburg and Bavaria you will ride on a miners' car, slide down two long mining chutes, take a ride on a raft over a subterranean lake and acquire a wealth of information about salt mining. After the tour you will visit the* "Celtic Village",<http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/tid_celtic_museum_hallein_46745/direktlink.html> * reconstructed from an ancient Celtic settlement, and learn about the people, their work and way of living. After lunch at a restaurant in Hallein offering regional fare and a short walk through the town, you will visit the refurbished *Celtic Museum<http://www.salzburgerland.com/eng/tid_celtic_museum_hallein_46745/direktlink.html> *, offering an exciting portrayal of the history of the Celts. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Dr. Jack Schaffer < [email protected]> wrote: > The Celts were not a germanic people. They are the ancestors of the Gaelic > speaking peoples in Ireland and Scotland, or at least some of them (there > were also Picts and other groups). The German speaking peoples originally > were settled near the Baltic Sea and migrated southward into the areas of > Bavaria and what is now Austria (as well as northward into Scandinavia) > sometime in the first centuries of the common era, if memory serves me > correctly. Most of the German speaking peoples who lived in Bohemia were > either invited in by the Slavic kings of the 10th to about the 12th > centuries (like good King Wenceslas) or were brought in by the Hapsburgs > following the 30-years War, when much of the Sudetenland was decimated and > had few people living there. By that time, the Celts had migrated westward > into France, Spain, and the British Isles. > > Jack Schaffer > > > > > ________________________________ > From: PJ Vazquez <[email protected]> > To: Roots Bohemian <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 7:52:37 PM > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] maps > > > Bob, > > > > I wasn't trying to say the maps were incorrect. I was wondering what was > meant by Celts as our most ancient ancestors? In what way were they > our most ancient ancestors? And would that be ancestors of ethnic > Bohemians only or also of Ethnic Germans born in Bohemia? > > > > I did a maternal line DNA test which gave me the result of Haplogroup T2 > and ancestors coming from the middle east to central Europe. I'm still not > clear on what my DNA results mean. > > > > Pam > > > > > > > > > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:55:27 -0800 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] maps > > > > PJ - > > > > The map is correct and so are you. Different maps show different things - > > and time periods. > > > > If you want an interesting look at the out-of-Africa maps, check this > out: > > https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html > > > > Bob U. > > > > -- > > "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." > > – Edna Ferber > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

The Celts were not a germanic people. They are the ancestors of the Gaelic speaking peoples in Ireland and Scotland, or at least some of them (there were also Picts and other groups). The German speaking peoples originally were settled near the Baltic Sea and migrated southward into the areas of Bavaria and what is now Austria (as well as northward into Scandinavia) sometime in the first centuries of the common era, if memory serves me correctly. Most of the German speaking peoples who lived in Bohemia were either invited in by the Slavic kings of the 10th to about the 12th centuries (like good King Wenceslas) or were brought in by the Hapsburgs following the 30-years War, when much of the Sudetenland was decimated and had few people living there. By that time, the Celts had migrated westward into France, Spain, and the British Isles. Jack Schaffer ________________________________ From: PJ Vazquez <[email protected]> To: Roots Bohemian <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 7:52:37 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] maps Bob, I wasn't trying to say the maps were incorrect. I was wondering what was meant by Celts as our most ancient ancestors? In what way were they our most ancient ancestors? And would that be ancestors of ethnic Bohemians only or also of Ethnic Germans born in Bohemia? I did a maternal line DNA test which gave me the result of Haplogroup T2 and ancestors coming from the middle east to central Europe. I'm still not clear on what my DNA results mean. Pam > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:55:27 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] maps > > PJ - > > The map is correct and so are you. Different maps show different things - > and time periods. > > If you want an interesting look at the out-of-Africa maps, check this out: > https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html > > Bob U. > > -- > "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." > – Edna Ferber > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Pam: here is additional reading http://www.angelfire.com/home/thefaery5/ <http://www.angelfire.com/home/thefaery5/>The Celts had influence on practically all European settlements. Their conflict with the Romans banned them to isolated places. Therefore, their language and culture was preserved in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. But they were instrumental of early settlements, judging from the names of geographical places they left behind. Eventually a more sophisticated DNA testing will show their relationship to Slavic, Ugric and Germanic people. Aida ------------------------------------------- On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:52 PM, PJ Vazquez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bob, > > > > I wasn't trying to say the maps were incorrect. I was wondering what was > meant by Celts as our most ancient ancestors? In what way were they > our most ancient ancestors? And would that be ancestors of ethnic > Bohemians only or also of Ethnic Germans born in Bohemia? > > > > I did a maternal line DNA test which gave me the result of Haplogroup T2 > and ancestors coming from the middle east to central Europe. I'm still not > clear on what my DNA results mean. > > > > Pam > > > > > > > > > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:55:27 -0800 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] maps > > > > PJ - > > > > The map is correct and so are you. Different maps show different things - > > and time periods. > > > > If you want an interesting look at the out-of-Africa maps, check this > out: > > https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html > > > > Bob U. > > > > -- > > "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." > > – Edna Ferber > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

PJ - The map is correct and so are you. Different maps show different things - and time periods. If you want an interesting look at the out-of-Africa maps, check this out: https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html Bob U. -- "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." – Edna Ferber

This is a very interesting map. I thought that all humans most ancient ancestors came from Africa. > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:57:39 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Roman Empire Map with Timeline > > So many good maps are now available on the internet. Here is another gem I > would like to share with you. > Go to the link below and observe the timeline of the Roman Empire. > Carefully watch the green fields also, which are those of the original > Celtic settlements, as they were your most ancient ancestors. > See how they were decimated by the Romans over the years. > Aida > http://resourcesforhistory.com/map.htm > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

>From Wikipedia Historical migration of human populations begins with the movement of *Homo erectus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus>* out of Africa across Eurasia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia> about a million years ago. *Homo sapiens <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human>* appear to have occupied all of Africa about 150,000 years ago, moved out of Africa 70,000 years ago, and had spread across Australia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_of_Australia>, Asia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Asia> and Europe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_Europe>by 40,000 years. Migration to the Americas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models_of_migration_to_the_New_World>took place 20 to 15,000 years ago, and by 2,000 years ago, most of the Pacific Islands <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islands> were colonized. Later population movements notably include the Neolithic Revolution<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution>, Indo-European expansion <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans>, and the Early Medieval Great Migrations<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period>including Turkic expansion <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_migration>.

Another valuable and exhaustive resource is "The Celtic World" edited by Miranda J. Green in 1995. http://books.google.com/books?id=nBzutED9sJIC&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=The+Celtic+World.+Green&source=bl&ots=M0lRB3nD5p&sig=6R4thAfFpaeJwWTdj9b3f4lLkng&hl=en&ei=x9h2S_vBFo6qswOCnO3KCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false In her Introduction, Ms Green asks "Who were the Celts? How should we define this term? It is interesting that the same questions do not tend to be asked of - say - the Roman world. We are secure with Romans because they identified themselves as such: *Civis Romanus sum* ('I am a Roman citizen'). We cannot tell whether a comparable Celtic consciousness ever existed." Her book examines the question on multiple levels, including possible geographic origins. Bob U. -- "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little." – Edna Ferber

* submitted by Aida in addition to website http://resourcesforhistory.com/map.htm >From "The Sacred World of the Celts" by Nigel Pennick "The Celts were a southern European people of Indo-Aryan origin who first surfaced in Bohemia and travelled west in search of the home of the sun. Science has recently established their basic blood group as 'O', in keeping with their modern descendants, which designates them as a seperate race from the aboriginals of the sourthern Indian subcontinent, where the 'B' blood group perdominates. History tells us that there were two main Celtic groups, one of which is referred to as the 'lowland Celts' who hailed from the region of the Danube. These people left their native pastures around 1200 BC and slowly made their way across Europe, founding the lake dwellings in Switzerland, the Danube valley and Ireland. They were skilled in the use of metals and worked in gold, tin and bronze. Unlike the more familiar Celtic strain these people were an agriculturally oriented race, being herdsmen, tillers and artificers who burned rather than buried their dead. They blended peacefully with the megalithic people among whom they settled, contributing powerfully to the religion, art, and customs they encountered as they slowly spread westwards. Their religious beliefs also differed from the next group, being predominately matriarchal. The second group, often referred to as the 'true' Celts, followed closely behind their lowland cousins, making their first appearance on the left bank of the Rhine at the commencement of the sixth century BC. These people, who came from the mountainous regions of the Balkans and Carpathians, were a military aristocracy. Reputed to love fighting for the sake of it they were frequently to be found among the mercenaries of the great armies of those early times. They had a distinct class system, the observance of which constituted one of their major racial features. These were the warlike Celts of ancient history who sacked Rome and Delphi, eventually marching victoriously across much of Europe and the British Isles. But in spite of their martial inclinations they were also known for their qualities of chivalry, courage and dauntless bravery, their more aggressive tendencies being balanced out by a great sensitivity to music, poetry and philosophy. Unlike the lowland Celts these people buried their dead, and their elaborate religious rituals held in honour of Lugh are well recounted in the pages of the recorded past." *

So many good maps are now available on the internet. Here is another gem I would like to share with you. Go to the link below and observe the timeline of the Roman Empire. Carefully watch the green fields also, which are those of the original Celtic settlements, as they were your most ancient ancestors. See how they were decimated by the Romans over the years. Aida http://resourcesforhistory.com/map.htm

In a message dated 2/1/2010 11:49:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: >From Aida: I came across this website showing an excellent map of Bohemia and the areas where its natural resources are deposited. If you copy and paste the map to your Paint Program it enlarges automatically and you can navigate to find individual areas of interest to you. The villages and towns carry the original German name known to your ancestors. You can also use the Zoom tool on the website. If you want to cut out certain areas of interest, use the capture tool. You find it following this path: start-all programs-accessories- snipping tool http://www.jursitzky.net/Download/Geologische-Landkarte-Boehm.gif German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ Thanks Aida, but when I go to the site, I only get the top half of the map. Is it just me? Cathy

hmmm - click on it to save it, and then open it from there, see if that will work. if it does, open it with paint. Aida On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a message dated 2/1/2010 11:49:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > >From Aida: > I came across this website showing an excellent map of Bohemia and the > areas > where its natural resources are deposited. If you copy and paste the map > to > your Paint Program it enlarges automatically and you can navigate to find > individual areas of interest to you. The villages and towns carry the > original German name known to your ancestors. You can also use the Zoom > tool > on the website. If you want to cut out certain areas of interest, use the > capture tool. You find it following this path: > start-all programs-accessories- snipping tool > http://www.jursitzky.net/Download/Geologische-Landkarte-Boehm.gif > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > > > > Thanks Aida, but when I go to the site, I only get the top half of the map. > Is it just me? > > Cathy > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >